Report to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, November 13
Доклад на IV конгрессе Коминтерна 13 ноября
Date: 1921
Source: PSS vol 45
Translated by: AI (Claude)

(The appearance of Comrade Lenin is greeted by stormy, prolonged applause and ovations from the entire hall. All rise and sing the Internationale.) Comrades! I am listed on the programme as the main speaker, but you will understand that after my long illness I am not in a position to deliver a lengthy report. I can give only an introduction to the most important questions. My theme will be a very limited one. The theme "Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution" is too broad and too large for one speaker to exhaust in a single speech. I shall therefore take only a small part of this theme, namely the question of the "new economic policy." I deliberately take only this small part, in order to acquaint you with this most important question at the present time -- most important, at any rate, for me, since I am now working on it.

And so I shall speak about how we started the new economic policy and what results we have achieved with the aid of this policy. If I confine myself to this question, then perhaps I shall succeed in giving a general survey and a general idea of the given question.

If I begin with how we came to the new economic policy, then I must refer to an article I wrote in 1918...